The news hit, a rogue wave: sudden, unthinkable, savage

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Jim Sullivan and his wife, Evelyn, in their living room. Jim Sullivan came upon a car overturned in the Kendall Reservoir the day of JFK's assassination. He sprinted down the bank, dashed in and pried open the driver’s door underwater. Four people were inside.

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Janet (Foscaldo) Taylor remembered hearing of the assassination when she was an 8-year-old in third grade. She and her Gate of Heaven School classmates were told by the nuns after returning to school from lunch. Students were sent home after the announcement.